TCO 285 Web Design Assignment Schedule

Phase 1 - Personal Website- 50 points
Due -- Home page and Portfolio Page March 20

Create a personal website for yourself. This site should have a distinctive design reflecting your personality and interests. Your home page should have a text narrative about you, along with a picture of yourself or other image that you think represents you. Include your contact info (as much as you're comfortable with providing) and the last date revised. Follow the principles of web design & usability we are learning from the Yale Style Guide and Jakob Nielsen. Include an active email link. From your home page, you must link to your comprehensive web project.

Required Home Page Components:

• Text info about yourself
• Photo of yourself
• Link to the TCO 285 class site
• Create and link to an online portfolio of your work using Adobe Acrobat to convert your flyer, letterhead, and brochure/newsletter into .pdf files and post them to your website
• Link to your comprehensive web project

Required Portfolio Page Components: (note -- you will build this throughout the semester)

Text & graphical links to all work completed in class
Useof a graphical metaphor

Phase 2 - Flowchart and Organizational Website - 100 points
Due April 24 final

Flowchart

1. Create a flowchart representing your comprehensive website. You may use PowerPoint or any program capable of building flowcharts. This plan simply maps out your site, with each page descending down from the index page of your final comprehensive site. Save your file as a .pdf and post it on your portfolio page.

Due: March 27

Comprehensive Website

2. Create a 10-page website for an organization, group, or purpose of your choice. Organizations such as fraternities and sororities do not count for this assignment.

Due for first peer review: April 15

Due for second peer review: April 22

Due final: April 24

Your website must have a home page and branch to at least two other levels, including at least 10 pages total. You must have a menu on the home page (can be textual), include images on 5 of the 10 pages, and use any strategy to organize your pages.

The home page for your organizational site must contain an introduction and a menu to other pages. At least 10 pages are required for the comprehensive site. Your organizational site files must reside in a different folder than your personal site, and this folder will be automatically reflected in your url. Your personal site will have a link to the index page of the organizational site, but no other linking will be done.

A link to your comprehensive site should be available on your portfolio page beginning November 13 (even though it is not due as final until Dec 6.)

See former student websites for examples.